Wesley J. Smith

Massachusetts’ experiment with a form of Obamacare is failing, with the state’s insurance companies in terrible financial trouble because of the heavy hand of politicized premium regulation. From the story:The four major Massachusetts health insurers yesterday posted first-quarter losses . . . . Continue Reading »

My alert system just turned up a new Facebook site dedicated to those who are supposedly “passionate” about me, a place where they can share their views.  I find that puzzling..  Other than Secondhand Smokette, I can’t imagine anyone being passionate about me.  . . . . Continue Reading »

Shameful.  The UK prosecutors have placed disabled, dying, and chronically ill suicidal people at tremendous risk by refusing to prosecute a clear case of assisted suicide.  From the story:A loving husband who helped his seriously ill wife commit suicide will not face legal action it was . . . . Continue Reading »

DateFavorOpposeMay 22-2363%32%May 14-1556%39%May 1056%37%Apr 30-May 154%39%Apr 24-2558%38%Apr 16-1756%41%Apr 10-1158%38%Apr 2-354%42%Mar 27-2854%42%Mar 23-2455%42%Obamacare is not growing more popular with time.  In fact, Rasumssen—which is one of the most accurate of these measurements . . . . Continue Reading »

Solar scientists are beginning to come out of the closet as skeptics about human-caused global warming.  From “It’s the Sun, Stupid,” by Lawrence Solomon in Canada’s National Post:Four years ago, when I first started profiling scientists who were global warming skeptics, . . . . Continue Reading »

For years we’ve been told that global warming is an unprecedented crisis, and that WE ONLY HAVE TEN YEARS TO SAVE THE PLANET!!  But now, it seems that global warming  is to be knocked into second place as the world’s catastrophe in the making, supplanted by biodiversity . . . . Continue Reading »

Pro lifers are often depicted in the media as not very bright.  But they are actually quite clever politicians, adept at using every available legal means to reduce the number of abortions, persuade the masses to accept their cultural beliefs—the majority in America now identify as pro . . . . Continue Reading »

The current First Things (June/July 2010) has an important article by Eric Cohen and Yuval Levin—both of whom were staffers on the President’s Council on Bioethics under Leon Kass. They note that President Obama has profoundly downplayed bioethics in his presidency so far—other . . . . Continue Reading »

Somebody had to say . . . . Continue Reading »

Just because we can do something in science, that doesn’t mean we should do it.  That verity should be kept in mind as we ponder the news that scientists have created an artificial bacterium using synthetic genes. From the story:Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first . . . . Continue Reading »